“They are in jail for doing what Black Lives Matter wanted them to do: shoot at cops”, Rentas said in the statement, the Associated Press reported.
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“By the grace of God, we are not having a press conference today about multiple homicides, multiple deaths of police officers”, Lancaster County District Attorney Craig Stedman said Saturday.
Ten people were arrested during the demonstration, which brought traffic to a standstill at the peak of the holiday season, while another five were held for blocking a road to Birmingham airport in central England, police said.
Although the Movement for Black Lives platform does not explicitly endorse BDS, it does call on activists to “build invest/divestment campaigns that ends [sic] US Aid to Israel’s military industrial complex and any government with human rights violations”.
The parents of two teens arrested in a sniper attack on Columbia, (PA) police are blaming Black Lives Matter for goading people like their dim-witted sons into a war on police.
From around 8.20 a.m. local time (3.20 a.m. ET) several demonstrators began chaining themselves together and lying across the M4 motorway leading to Heathrow Airport beneath a banner reading: “This is a crisis”.
Video footage showed police officers hunkering down next to the protesters, while chants of “black lives matter” could be heard.
There were also protests at the Birmingham Airport in West Midlands, as well as in the town of Nottingham, where protesters laid down in the street to stop traffic.
On Friday, the British organization was calling for a day of coordinated action across the country.
When we look at these numbers, we may only say 9 people died but we can’t even imagine the hurt and suffering of the family of the 6-year-old, or the 14-year-old, 19-year old or the four who had not reached 30.
The day of action comes just a day after the anniversary of Mark Duggan’s death.
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Police have also been the victims of fatal shootings, with five officers killed in Dallas, Texas, and three law enforcement officers gunned down in Baton Rouge.
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“This morning we shut down major transport hubs because the conventional avenues to justice have been shut down to us”, the Black Lives Matter UK group said on Twitter.
